Forking, branching and flavoring WordPress

There’s been a lot of discussion in the community – on Twitter, Reddit, in the Slack community for AspirePress – about forking the WordPress project and taking it away from the Powers That Be(tm) and making it truly community oriented. I wanted to share some thoughts that have come up around this in our community with the broader WordPress community. Forking Forking is an act that says “thank you for what you’ve done; we’re going… continue reading.

It’s time to solve the “single-point-of-failure” problem with WordPress updates

tl;dr: We are working to solve the infrastructure challenges of distributing plugins, themes and core for WordPress users. Matt has highlighted a vulnerability, which we should all care about, regardless of who we think is right. But the effort needs help. Edited lightly from post on r/WordPress. Hello. This may be my first post on AspirePress but it’s not my first engagement with the WordPress or PHP communities. In fact, I’ve been a PHP and WordPress… continue reading.